Jumaane Smith
JUMAANE SMITH
SOUL-JAZZ & BLUES TRUMPETER, VOCALIST & COMPOSER
Jumaane Smith has performed on 5 GRAMMY-winning records (selling more than 60 million copies), 2 Emmy-nominated TV performances, the GRAMMY Awards with Stevie Wonder, in Steven Spielberg’s "West Side Story," and more. Jumaane has toured to such world-class venues as Jazz At Lincoln Center, The Blue Note, Birdland Jazz Club, Tanglewood, Ronnie Scott's, SF Jazz, Vail Jazz Festival, Java Jazz Festival, Jazz Alley, North Star Festival, Marian's Jazz Room, Rochester International Jazz Festival, Catalina Island Jazz Festival, and many more.
Musical legends that Jumaane has worked with include Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Christian McBride, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Alicia Keys, Jon Batiste, Kamasi Washington, Theo Croker, and Michael Bublé (as featured trumpet/vocals soloist). As a full scholarship recipient at the Juilliard School of Music’s Jazz Studies program, Wynton Marsalis was Smith’s primary trumpet teacher.